Classic Les Paul design with dual Burstbucker pickups.
The Gibson Les Paul Standard ’50s Faded electric guitar pays tribute to the golden era of Gibson innovation, with the classic and much-loved design that shaped sound across generations and genres of music. The Les Paul Standard ’50s Faded features a satin nitrocellulose lacquer finish that gives it the look and feel of a long-treasured musical companion. It has a solid mahogany body with an AA figured maple top and a rounded ’50s-style mahogany neck with a rosewood fingerboard and trapezoid inlays. It is equipped with an ABR-1 Tune-O-Matic bridge, an aluminum stopbar tailpiece, Vintage Deluxe tuners with keystone buttons and gold top hat knobs with dial pointers. The open-coil Burstbucker 1 and Burstbucker 2 pickups (both double black) are hand-wired to audio taper potentiometers and Orange Drop capacitors.
The Gibson Standard ’50s Faded electric guitar comes with a hardshell case.
The Gibson Standard ’50s Faded electric guitar comes with a hardshell case.
Specifications
Body
- Body type: Single cutaway
- Top wood: AA figured maple
- Body wood: Mahogany
- Body finish: Satin nitrocellulose lacquer
- Neck shape: Vintage '50s
- Neck wood: Mahogany
- Scale length: 24.75"
- Neck finish: Satin nitrocellulose lacquer
- Material: Rosewood
- Number of frets: 22
- Inlays: Acrylic trapezoid
- Nut width/material: 1.69" (43 mm) Graph Tech
- Configuration: HH
- Neck: Burstbucker 1, Double Black
- Bridge: Burstbucker 2, Double Black
- Control layout: Volume 1, Volume 2, Tone 1, Tone 2
- Special electronics: Hand-wired with Orange Drop capacitors
- Bridge type: Fixed bridge
- Bridge design: ABR-1 Tune-O-Matic
- Tailpiece: Aluminum stopbar
- Tuning machines: Vintage Deluxe with keystone buttons
- Number of strings: 6 string
- Case: Hardshell case
- Orientation: Right-handed
Features
- AA figured maple top with a mahogany body
- Mahogany neck in a vintage ’50s profile
- Rosewood fingerboard with acrylic trapezoid inlays
- Duo of open-coil double black Burstbucker pickups